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BY ERIC TUCKERAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — More thanfive dozen protesters upset aboutwhat they call corporate greed andthe excessive influence of moneyin politics were arrested Wednes-day after shutting down K Street,home to many of the city’s influen-tial lobbying firms, in a massdemonstration that snarled mid-day traffic in the nation’s capital.

The arrests came as demonstra-tors from across the country con-verged on K Street for a march thatincluded participants from OccupyWall Street encampments as wellas other groups — includingunions— sympathetic to their mes-sage about income inequality. D.C.police had made 62 arrests by 5:30

p.m. Wednesday, said spokes-woman Gwendolyn Crump. Sixty-one of the arrests were forobstructing a public highway andan additional arrest was made for amisdemeanor assault on a policeofficer.

A group of about three dozenprotesters clad in rain gear andprotective covering were carriedinto police vans after lying down inthe middle of a busy intersectionand ignoring repeated orders tomove. Their supporters on thesidewalk chanted, “This is whatdemocracy looks like!” and “We arethe 99 percent” and then jeeredand yelled at officers as they beganarresting demonstrators.

Earlier, 11 protesters affiliatedwith the American Dream Move-ment — which advocates for the

working-class — were separatelyarrested and charged with ob-structing a public highway.

The arrests appeared to be themost since Occupy DC took rootearlier this fall at McPhersonSquare, just blocks from the WhiteHouse. The group’s relationshipwith police has been generallypeaceful, though U.S. Park Policeofficers on Sunday arrested 31 pro-testers who refused to dismantleand get down from an unfinishedwooden structure they had built inthe park.

The march was diffuse andspread across blocks, making it dif-ficult to gauge the size of thecrowd. But organizers said they ex-pected several thousand people inWashington this week for days ofactivism, including sit-ins Tuesday

at congressional offices and a vigilfor the jobless on Thursday. Oneperson was arrested at Tuesday’ssit-ins for unlawful entry.

The demonstration Wednesdaycreated a commuting headachedowntown, as police shut downneighboring streets and cars linedup waiting for protesters to pass.Demonstrators set up tents on KStreet NW near McPherson Square,the site of the Occupy DC encamp-ment. Some buildings along KStreet took precautions by addingextra security guards amid warn-ings that the protesters planned toenter certain firms and companies.

Donna Newman-HacklSeptember 9,1931-December 2, 2011WYNOT, Neb. — Donna Jean

Newman-Hackl passed away atthe Hospice House - The JosieHarper Residence in Omaha, NEafter a very brief illness.

She was born on September 9,1931 to Irene (Mallett) & HugoSchroeder on a farm east ofWynot, NE. She lived in Wayne,NE and Sioux City, IA before mov-ing to Wynot in 1945 where hermother Irene taught school.Donna graduated from WynotHigh School in 1948. She marriedDon Newman in 1948 and sheand Don owned and operatedNewman’s Bar in Wynot from1961 until their retirement in

1993. Her husband Don passedaway in October 1998. In 2001Donna married Howard Hackl.They lived in Wynot, Californiaand Arizona. Howard passedaway in Arizona in January 2010.

Donna was a member of theHoly Family Catholic Church,Wynot, NE and the Wynot Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary.

She is survived by her fivechildren: Tom Newman, Sutton,NE: Jane Newman, Sioux Falls,SD; Bob (Trixie) Newman, Eagan,MN; Nancee (Roman) Sudbeck,Hartington, NE; Kelly (Tom)LeBlanc, Omaha, NE. Five grand-children: Ryan (Mollie) Newman,Sartell, MN; Nichole (Dave)Janssen, Hastings, MN; Ross

(Betsy) Sudbeck, Kearney, NE,Rory (Becca) Sudbeck, Omaha,NE; Kirby LeBlanc, Omaha, NE,step grandchildren: Andy(Wendy) LeBlanc, Plattsmouth,NE; Laura (John) Zucchelli,Omaha, NE- Five great grandchil-dren: Anna & Josie Sudbeck;Dylan & Rylie Newman; BrodySudbeck. Step great grandchil-dren: Brady & Samantha LeBlanc;Rylee Zucchelli. One brother Don(Doral) Schroeder Wynot;brother-in-law Earl (Marilyn)Newman, Primgahr, IA; twonephews; a niece, and many,many friends throughout theWynot community.

Donna was preceded in deathby her parents, two husbands,and grandson Miles Sudbeck(March 19, 2010). At Donna’s re-quest (like her mother Irene), herbody was donated to theAnatomical Board of the State ofNebraska, Nebraska Medical Cen-ter for medical research.

A Memorial Mass will be heldat Holy Family Catholic Church inWynot on Saturday, December 10at 10:30 a.m. The family will alsoreceive friends one hour prior tothe service. At a later date, hercremains will be interred in theWynot Public Cemetery along sideher first husband Don Newman.

In lieu of flowers, memorialsare suggested in Donna’s honorto Holy Family Catholic Church,Wynot, NE; Wynot High SchoolBooster Club, Wynot, NE; Hos-pice House -The Josie HarperResidence, Omaha, NE.

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Ex-Penn State assistant football coachJerry Sandusky was arrested and jailed Wednesday on new child sexabuse charges brought by two new accusers, including one who claimsSandusky molested him numerous times in a basement bedroom.

The claims bring the number of Sandusky’s criminal accusers to 10and he now faces more than 50 charges stemming from accusations hemolested boys for years on Penn State property, in his home andelsewhere.

The scandal has raised questions about whether Penn State offi-cials did all they should have to stop the alleged activity and endedthe careers of the school’s president and Hall of Fame football coachJoe Paterno.

Sandusky, 67, was first arrested last month and has said repeatedlythat he is innocent. The latest charges were brought after new accus-ers were questioned by a grand jury, which issued another report de-tailing chilling new allegations of abuse.

Sandusky lawyer Joseph Amendola said after the arraignmentWednesday that he had not yet read the latest grand jury report, butsaid he has no reason to doubt Sandusky’s claims of innocence. San-dusky was unable to immediately post a $250,000 bail and was taken tojail.

GOP Campaign Enters Aggressive PhaseDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Inviting contrasts with thrice-married re-

ligious convert Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney cast himself as a man ofconsistency in religion and matrimony Wednesday as he and otherGOP candidates went after the latest front-runner in a strikingly ag-gressive new phase of the Republican campaign.

“I’m a man of steadiness and constancy. I don’t think you’re goingto find somebody who has more of those attributes than I do,” the for-mer Massachusetts governor said in a new TV ad that included grainyhome videos of his wife and five sons. There was no mention of equiv-ocations and policy reversals that his critics have pointed out.

Also on Wednesday, in an effort to revive a flagging rival campaign,Texas Gov. Rick Perry launched an ambitious effort to compete againstGingrich for the support of Christian evangelicals by emphasizing hisChristianity in a flood of new commercials in the leadoff caucus stateof Iowa. Separately, Texas Rep. Ron Paul pressed his contention thatformer House Speaker Gingrich was simply a Washington insider whowould eventually flame out.

“He’s the flavor of the week,” Paul said dismissively on CNN. “Ourgrowth is steady.”

The sharper tone — limited to TV for now — marked a pronouncedshift in the Republican presidential race away from policy differencesand toward character distinctions, with the new GOP leader in stateand national polls — Gingrich — clearly the focus a month before theJan. 3 Iowa caucuses. The former Georgia lawmaker is getting a secondlook from Republican voters across the country after his campaign im-ploded earlier this summer, and time is running short for his oppo-nents to slow him before the voting starts.

Egypt Military: Parliament Not RepresentativeCAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s military rulers said Wednesday the next par-

liament will not be representative enough to independently overseethe drafting of a constitution, and they will appoint a council to checkthe influence of religious extremists on the process.

The announcement followed a surprisingly strong showing by Is-lamist groups who took the overwhelming majority in the first roundof parliamentary elections. The outcome caused concern among theliberals who drove Egypt’s uprising and the military, which took powerfrom ousted leader Hosni Mubarak.

“We are in the early stages of democracy,” said Gen. Mukhtar Mulla,a member of the ruling military council. “The parliament is not repre-senting all sectors of society.”

In theory, the new parliament will be entrusted with forming a 100-member constituent assembly to write the new constitution. But Mullasaid the new council will coordinate with parliament and the Cabinetto ensure the assembly is representative of all religions, professions,and political parties.

The new constitution will determine the nature of Egypt’s post-Mubarak political system. Liberal groups and the military— a secularinstitution that has traditionally controlled access of Islamists to itsranks — are concerned that religious extremists will exert too much in-fluence and could try to enshrine strict Islamic law, or Shariah, as theonly guiding principle for state policies.

Occupy San Fancisco Camp DismantledSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police gave protesters at San Fran-

cisco’s Occupy encampment five minutes to gather belongings be-fore dismantling the camp in an overnight raid, taking down about100 tents and arresting 70 people.

About two dozen officers in riot gear remained at daybreakWednesday, down from more than 100 who carried out the raid.They blocked access to the former camp site as trash crews rakedup paper and plastic bottles, removed chairs and other belongingsthat had accumulated there over the past two months, and pres-sure-washed the sidewalks.

A handful of protesters stood by, occasionally jeering at officersbut otherwise heeding their instructions to stay back.

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CHICAGO — The Rod Blagoje-vich who once challenged a prose-cutor to face him like a man, theglad-handing politician who tookto celebrity TV shows to professhis innocence, was nowhere to befound Wednesday as he was sen-tenced to 14 years in prison forcorruption.

Frowning and pulling nervouslyat his tie, the disgraced formergovernor seemed like another per-son as he stepped up to addressthe sentencing judge. Bluster onceas conspicuous as his famouslylavish head of dark hair was wipedout, a victim of his June convic-tions on charges that included at-tempting to sell President BarackObama’s U.S. Senate seat.

In a low voice, the two-term De-mocrat apologized again and again,telling Judge James Zagel he hadmade “terrible mistakes.”

“I caused it all. I’m not blaminganybody,” Blagojevich said, tryingwith uncharacteristic humility toavert severe punishment. “I wasthe governor and I should haveknown better and I am just so in-credibly sorry.”

It was not enough for Zagel,who gave the 54-year-old a sen-tence close to the 15 to 20 yearsprosecutors had sought.

“The abuse of the office of gov-ernor is more damaging than theabuse of any other office, exceptthe president’s,” he said.

“Whatever good things you didfor people as governor, and youdid some, I am more concernedwith the occasions when youwanted to use your powers ... to dothings that were only good foryourself,” Zagel said.

Blagojevich slumped forward inhis chair — momentarily frozen asthe judge pronounced the sen-tence. Moments later, his wife,Patti, fell into his arms; when hepulled back from their embrace, hebrushed tears from her cheek.

“When it is the governor whogoes bad,” Zagel said, “the fabric ofIllinois is torn and disfigured andnot easily repaired.”

Illinois governors have gonebad with stunning frequency. Fourof the last nine have been sen-tenced to prison, including Blago-jevich’s predecessor, George Ryan,who remains behind bars.

Blagojevich, who received morethan twice as much time as any ofthe other governors, was alsomore of a national spectacle —both because of the chargesagainst him, and how he re-sponded to them.

In the most notorious of the FBIwiretaps that sealed his fate,Blagojevich is heard crowing thathis chance to name someone toObama’s Senate seat was “f---inggolden” and he wouldn’t let it go“for f---ing nothing.” His lawyersclaimed the comments were sim-ply “musings,” but jurors and thejudge agreed they were evidence ofa crime.

The jury also found that Blago-jevich demanded a $50,000 dona-tion from the head of a children’shospital in return for increased

state support, and extorted$100,000 in donations from twohorse racing tracks and a racingexecutive in exchange for quick ap-proval of legislation the trackswanted.

Blagojevich responded to hisDec. 9, 2008, arrest with defiance,appointing Roland Burris to theSenate job he was accused of try-ing to sell and proclaiming his in-nocence with a media blitz.

The boyish-looking defendantcontinued pursuing the spotlightafter he was removed from office,writing a book, appearing in realityTV shows such as “Celebrity Ap-prentice” and even appearing in aTV ad in which he opens a brief-case overflowing not with moneybut with pistachios. “Rod Blagoje-vich does it innocently,” was theline.

“His behavior and conductonce he was charged was almost atemplate for what you don’t want adefendant to do,” said Joel Levin, aformer federal prosecutor. “... Hedid everything possible to alienatethe prosecutors and the judge and,ultimately, it came back to hurthim.”

It took two trials for prosecu-tors to snare Blagojevich. His firstended deadlocked with jurorsagreeing on just one of 24 counts— that Blagojevich lied to the FBI.Jurors at his retrial convicted himon 17 of 20 counts, includingbribery and attempted extortion.

On Wednesday, Blagojevichlicked his lips nervously as hestepped up to address the judge —mouthing the words, “I love you,”to his wife as he passed her on aspectators’ bench. Leaning into ahefty oak podium, tightly grippingits sides, the often fast-talkingBlagojevich spoke slowly, some-times pausing and searching forthe right word.

“My life is ruined,” he toldZagel. Accentuating each of thenext five words, he added, “I havenobody to blame but myself.”

He offered more than half adozen apologies to, among others,his former colleagues and to hisformer constituents across Illinois.But he stopped, seemingly togather his composure, when hesaid that he also owed an apologyto his family — including his twodaughters, 15-year-old Amy andAnnie, 8.

“I have ruined their innocence,”he said quietly.

Sitting just a few feet to Blagoje-vich’s left were the three federalprosecutors who devoted morethan three years to his case. In hisremarks, Blagojevich also apolo-gized to them for itching to sparwith them verbally, sometimesthrough the media.

Alluding to his teenage years asan amateur boxer, Blagojevich toldZagel, “I’m accustomed to fighting... it was childish and not produc-tive.”

On his way out of the court-house, Blagojevich cited authorRudyard Kipling and said it was atime to be strong, to fight throughadversity and be strong for hischildren. He said he and wife wereheading home to speak to theirdaughters, and then left withoutanswering any questions.

JOSE M. OSORIO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/MCTFormer Gov. Rod Blagojevich, center, leaves his Chicago home, Wednes-day, for sentencing in his corruption trial at the Dirksen U.S. Courthousein Chicago, Illinois.

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